Posts by Simon

You might want to brush up on your real history - Alexanders 35,000 men beat an army estimated to be 1,000,000 in one of the most impressive victories against overwhelming odds in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaugamela

Of course ancient sources always overestimated the size of armies back in those days, the bible writers were no exception.

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The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

by FFGhost in

so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

Simon

If you read about the logistics for large armies in history, before oil-powered transportation was available, it was often an incredible challenge to keep them supplied and fed.

And "large" is not as large as you may imagine, Alexander the Great for instance had maybe 35-40,000 men ... roughly a mid-size sports stadium full of people, but then they would have extra support staff. Every person was a mouth to feed.

Past a certain size and you need more and more people to gather and supply food, so there was a limit to how large of a group of people could be maintained. Add horses or camels and that's yet more mouths to feed.

And they could only be fed by taking from the tows and cities they conquered and travelled through. A very different scenario to travelling through a desert with no supplies.

The bible stories really are fancifully outlandish in their claims.

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Watch this, and don’t shoot the messenger...

by DATA-DOG in

hopefully i’m doing this right and it will display for you.

this is an interview with michael yeadon, former vice president and chief science officer of pfizer.

of course he has been attacked, slandered, shunned, ect, and this will never be allowed on social media, but he has taken the time to appear in an unpaid interview.

Simon

I dont think the 579,000 deaths in the US alone were faking it.

What about if a lot of those deaths weren't because of it?

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Will You Get Back To Normal After Covid Subsides?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some say we will never get back to pre-pandemic days.

others say we should expect to live with masks and social distancing as the “new normal “.

still others are hopeful that we can live life realizing there might never be an end to covid or cancer or influenza but our lives must continue to go on.

Simon

Science simply isn't independent. It relies on funding, which means the scientist are beholden to the politicians who grant it to them.

The real scientists throughout history were the independent rebels, never the establishment preaching the orthodoxy.

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Caitlyn Jenner for California Governor

by LoveUniHateExams in

remember when caitlyn jenner came out as a trans woman a few years ago?.

it was stunning and brave, i'm sure you'll agree.. well, a good portion of her congratulators are now dreading the prospect of jenner becoming california governor.. you see, jenner is a republican, and has come out and said that trans women competing in women's sports is unfair (which is correct and a breath of fresh air).. so now trans people and their allies are getting ready with the smelling salts in case transwoman caitlyn jenner wins the race.

https://www.vox.com/22409461/caitlyn-jenner-california-governor-recall.

Simon

"As Governor I'm proud to launch this new ... [checks notes] ... erm, driver safety campaign."

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Chinese Rocket Falling to Earth

by Simon in

as if the chinese haven't already done enough to the world recently, they have now let a 22 ton rocket go out of control and start falling to earth.

it's going 18,000 miles an hour and no one knows where it's going to hit but if it isn't water then it might leave a scuff mark.. the good news it is shouldn't be canada, as we're too far north.. the bad news is, well ... are you in canada or the same latitude or more north?.

chances are it will hit the pacific, but it's 2021 and the way things are going it could hit a major population area.. if it does hit anywhere with lots of people, i hope it twats the shit out of beijing..

Simon

MMM - that reminded me of the time the news read out prank names after a plane crash.

Obviously a tragic event and not something to joke about, definitely not ... but holy crap, it's funny as fuck!

Play from the 43 second mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BejQuI3lH9M

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Why did Jehovah Kill all the animals in the flood? What purpose did it serve??

by pistolpete in

some of my jw family that is waking up posed that question to my jw family that is still hanging on to jw belief.. the stepbrother that posed that question told me;.

"in all these years of being a jw, i actually never gave it much thought as to why jehovah had to kill millions of innocent animals that had nothing to do with mankind becoming evil.".

i keep picturing in my mind, all the baby puppies and kitties that were destroyed by jehovah.

Simon

Fish and birds survived

One of the things that people forget is that many fish wouldn't survive.

Not all fish are the same - some live in salt water, some live in fresh-water, it's hard to keep those separate during a global flood.

Just one of the reasons the flood myth is just a story, not a fact.

And the issue of not everyone being evil (esp. babies and small children) is also why the logistics of armageddon make no sense and can't be reconciled with the concept of a loving god. It doesn't give people a chance, and as the population grows the number of people that it's unfair to keeps increasing.

Again, another reason that bible stories and religious beliefs simply make no sense once you start thinking about the nitty gritty details.

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Will You Get Back To Normal After Covid Subsides?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some say we will never get back to pre-pandemic days.

others say we should expect to live with masks and social distancing as the “new normal “.

still others are hopeful that we can live life realizing there might never be an end to covid or cancer or influenza but our lives must continue to go on.

Simon

Its would fair to say just because Dr. Fauci had a hand in sending grant money to the Virology lab in Wuhan, that doesn't mean he was directly behind in directing the creation of this Coivd virus. Just because you give money to a institution doesn't mean you know exactly whats going on there

But you would have a very direct incentive to promote the idea that they couldn't have anything todo with it, and it had to be another source.

Just one more reason not to listen to Fauci. He's in it for himself and he's demonstrated himself to be more than clueless and wrong on multiple occasions.

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Chinese Rocket Falling to Earth

by Simon in

as if the chinese haven't already done enough to the world recently, they have now let a 22 ton rocket go out of control and start falling to earth.

it's going 18,000 miles an hour and no one knows where it's going to hit but if it isn't water then it might leave a scuff mark.. the good news it is shouldn't be canada, as we're too far north.. the bad news is, well ... are you in canada or the same latitude or more north?.

chances are it will hit the pacific, but it's 2021 and the way things are going it could hit a major population area.. if it does hit anywhere with lots of people, i hope it twats the shit out of beijing..

Simon

As if the Chinese haven't already done enough to the world recently, they have now let a 22 ton rocket go out of control and start falling to earth. It's going 18,000 miles an hour and no one knows where it's going to hit but if it isn't water then it might leave a scuff mark.

The good news it is shouldn't be Canada, as we're too far North.

The bad news is, well ... are you in Canada or the same latitude or more North?

Chances are it will hit the Pacific, but it's 2021 and the way things are going it could hit a major population area.

If it does hit anywhere with lots of people, I hope it twats the shit out of Beijing.